New Sutherland Wind Farm alert

[Rosehall]

On 04.09.2020 the Highland Council advertised a planning application from Muirden Energy to build a wind farm at Meall Buidhe on the slopes of Meall Dheirgidh (506m), Strathcarron. This is hill which a number of Walkhighlands members have climbed.
An associated development at scoping stage is Brookfield Renewables' plan to build Braelangwell Windfarm on the adjacent ridge at Braec-Bheinn (464m) with turbines in excess of 150 metres high which will potentially be lit at night and have a maximum blade tip height of 180 m. These developments are close to several existing wind farms and the already approved Braemore development. They will be highly visible from wild land and nearby mountains in the north and west and Carn Chuinneag and Ben Wyvis further south.
Read full details of the Environmental Impact Assessment for the Meall Buidhe development online at The Highland Counci planning page, application number: 20/02659/FUL. Objections can be submitted by email with a deadline of 04.10.2020.

[pony23]

There is a website called Winderful which shows in graphical form the real time output of the majority of UK windfarms, which are spread across the UK's land and sea. If the wind were to be blowing perfectly at all windfarms this output would be 17,983 MW (megawatts).
However the output today at 7am was a ridiculously low 370 MW, when solar output would be virtually zero.
The highest output this year was 12,667 MW, nowhere near 17,983.

On June 15 wind output at one point was less than 100 MW which could be laughable, but it's no joke.

For those who think that batteries are the solution, the world's biggest battery (reportedly) at Hornsdale, which cost over £50 million, would give the UK it's energy for 2.6 seconds, IF it were fully charged at the time it were needed.